In the FL lounge area in the trading hall, Zhang Ran and the senior executives of FL applauded the bell ringer at the bell station, and then hugged each other with a smile. At the same time, in front of the counter of FL's market maker Barclays Bank, the display screen shows the page of FL's stock trading. The stock code is "fl". Next to the issue price of $55, inquiry numbers began to appear.

Meanwhile, FL's stock began to conduct opening price inquiries, with FL's designated market maker Barclays and stable market manager Morgan Stanley going to decide together to be the most suitable opening price and decide when to open.

The process of inquiry for the company's iPo opening price is actually a bargaining process. The issuance price of the company's stock is equivalent to the ex-factory price of the product. The process of inquiry is the product's selling price and buying price in the market. After the buyer and seller bargaining, it is finally determined that the price that can be accepted by the most people and can make the most transaction orders. This is the opening price. Popular stocks such as FL have a very large trading volume and many people bargaining, so the bargaining process is particularly long.

Since he knew that the opening process would be relatively long, it might take one or two hours. After the opening bell rang, Zhang Ran and others left the rest area and were interviewed by different media. As a Chinese, Zhang Ran gave the first interview to his own people and CCTV. He then accepted interviews from several media outlets, including Fox. Then he went to the studio of the central NB trading hall of the New York Stock Exchange for interviews.

NB attaches great importance to the listing of FL. The host sent was Jim Kramer. After the greetings between the two parties, Jim Kramer looked at Zhang Ran and asked: "Now FL has been listed, and the market value will definitely exceed 100 billion yuan. Everyone is very concerned about the future development of FL. So what is the company's next goal?

Zhang Ran thought for a while and said, "The most important thing for FL is to improve its own system and make the company's ecosystem more perfect. On this basis, FL will make efforts in the development of new technologies, because we believe that in 20 to 0 years, the Internet will be replaced by new networks. The competition is cruel now, but the competition in the future will be even more cruel. Only new technologies can ensure that FL survives the competition in the future."

Jim Cramer looked at Zhang Ran and asked, "We know that besides FL, you are still the boss of Century Peak. Will Century Peak be listed in the future?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "There is no such plan for the time being, and the purpose of Century Peak is not to go public."

Jim Cramer asked: "There are large acquisitions almost every year at the peak of the century in recent years. There will definitely be acquisitions in the future. Will you buy one of the top six?"

Zhang Ran shrugged and joked with Jim Cramer: "Actually, I think NB TV is very good. If I can buy it, maybe I will buy it."

Jim Cramer laughed, and Zhang Ran laughed too.

After laughing, Zhang Ran said seriously: "To be honest, if it were a few years ago, I might have considered acquiring the Six Majors, but now I don't have this idea. There will be some acquisitions next, but most of these acquisitions are technical considerations or the need to improve the industrial chain. Whether it is FL or Century Peak, I definitely hope that they can go further, and the development of new technologies is particularly important."

Jim Cramer asked: "We all know that you are very rich. Now that FL is listed, you are richer. Some people even have their net worth close to Bill Gates after FL is listed. So what do you want to do next?"

Zhang Ran raised three fingers and said, "The first one is to get married. I have known my girlfriend for almost ten years. We plan to hold a wedding when we meet ten years later. This is the most important thing for me. The second is to establish a lab for new technology development; the third is to shoot diàn ying. You may not believe it. Although I have been working hard to make money, I am not particularly interested in making money. What I really like is shoot diàn ying, but you also know that shoot diàn ying is a particularly expensive industry. You can't play without money. Many great directors Orson Wells and Coppola have been ruined because of their lack of money. Now I have enough money. I can ignore the cost, the market, and ignore everything. I can still shoot the diàn ying that I want to shoot."

After the 15-minute interview on NB TV, Zhang Ran returned to the FL rest area. Bai Yunfei and Solomon have also accepted the interview and are chatting with Zhang Jingchu.

Zhang Ran walked over, sat down next to Zhang Jingchu, and then looked up at the Barclays counter.

At this time, there were still people in front of the counter, and there were a lot of people. Everyone was very concerned about the opening price of the FL with the issue price of $55. At Barclays counter, traders were wearing white horse clips and blue birds with FL printed on the back. They were busy. So far, the opening price of the first round has not yet been released.

Zhang Ran was a little surprised. It was already 10:10. The opening price of the first round had not yet come out. He couldn't help but say, "Have you not come out yet?"

Bai Yunfei smiled and said, "It's a good thing that didn't open it. The later it comes out, the higher the price!"

Just as Zhang Ran was about to speak, the trader at the Barclays counter stood up and shouted loudly: "The opening price range is 6 to 66 US dollars!"

Although the New York Stock Exchange is now full of modern equipment, they are sticking to tradition at one time. Each time the price is shouted out by the trader first and then displayed on the screen. As the trader's voice fell, two lines of numbers appeared on Barclays' screen, one is 6 and the other is 66. These two numbers are the possible range of the current opening price of the FL. Of course, this is the first opening inquiry range of the first round, and there will be multiple polling prices in the future.

At 10:20, the trader shouted: "The opening price range is raised by $65-68!"

At 10:0, that is, one hour after the opening of the market, the price of the third round came out and increased to $67 to $69.

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At 11:0, the eighth round of opening inquiry range opened, with $75-76. By this time, it had been two full hours since the opening of the market, and the inquiry had not yet ended. Such a long inquiry also made FL the longest opening time on the New York Stock Exchange in 10 years.

At 11:40, the 10th round of opening inquiry range had reached US$76-77. Then there was a long stalemate, and traders no longer "yelled" to show a new opening price.

At 11:50, after communicating with the representative of Morgan Stanley, a market maker, Barclays, a representative of the stable market manager, Morgan Stanley, he determined that $76 was a suitable price, and the opening price was finally set.

Barclays traders quickly came to the FL rest area, invited Zhang Ran and others to the counter of Barclays Bank, and invited them to press the trading button to complete the first transaction.

The reporters in the entire trading hall and the guests on the upper floor saw Zhang Ran and the three of them coming to the counter of Barclays Bank. They knew that the market was about to open, and the time to witness history was coming. The entire trading hall was filled with applause and cheers.

Zhang Ran and the other three chatted with Barclays traders, and then pressed the trading button at the same time.

The display on the Barclays counter shows this number of 76, and the first transaction of fl is completed!

At the same time, the opening bell in the trading hall rang, and the bells of the Dangdang were endless. FL, the largest Internet company in history, finally opened successfully!

FL opens at $76, up 872 from the issue price.” New York Times

"FL's market value exceeds US$129 billion, becoming the second largest Internet company after Google. FL's huge users and profitability are enough to challenge any company in the world." "Wire"

"FL City was successfully listed, and today thousands of Internet billionaires will be born. For California politicians, the most concerned thing is to mass-produce thousands of millionaires, greatly driving local income levels and driving tax growth." The Wall Street Journal

Major domestic media also reported on the launch of FL at the first time.

Sina Technology News: In the early morning of December 7, FL was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange at 2:5 last night, with the stock trading code "fl" and the issue price was US$55 per American depositary stock (ads). As of the closing, FL's stock price soared at US$218 to US$768, an increase of 96.

According to FL's opening stock price, its market value reached US$129 billion. Such a market value can also rank 10th among global technology companies. The nine companies ahead of FL are Apple, Microsoft, ibm, China Mobile, Google, Atamp;amp;t, Intel, Oracle, Vodafone and FL.

However, for ordinary domestic netizens, fl is far from everyone, and the market value has nothing to do with everyone, and it doesn’t have much to do with everyone. What everyone really cares about is Zhang Ran’s value. Because according to the prospectus, Zhang Ran’s shareholding ratio of fl is about 22. Based on 60%, the valuation of the Century Peak shares held by Zhang Ran is US$6 billion.

$28.5 billion plus $6 billion, that's $64.5 billion!

According to the Forbes Global Rich List released on the 10th of this month, Mexican telecom operator Carlos Slim ranked first on the list with a price of US$5.5 billion, Bill Gates ranked second with US$5 billion, and Warren Buffett ranked third with US$47 billion.

The domestic media are simply crazy, and netizens are also crazy, because according to Zhang Ran’s current value, he surpassed Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the current ranking first Carlos Slim, becoming the new richest man in the world!

Of course, some netizens think that Zhang Ran cannot compete with Bill Gates and others, because Century Peak's debt is particularly high and owes the bank one or two billion US dollars. If this money is removed, Zhang Ran is only more than 40 billion, which is still some distance away from the world's richest man.

However, most netizens still regard Zhang Ran as the new richest man in the world. He scolded, praised, sighed, envious, jealous and hated on the Internet, and even made up various jokes. One of them was circulated very widely: "Zhang Ran has 64.5 billion. Even if he is distributed to 100 million Chinese people per person, he still has 6.2 billion US dollars. In this way, he is still the richest man in the world, and all Chinese people have become billionaires!" (https:)
Chapter completed!